Example sentences of "are [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls . |
| 2 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 3 | To achieve this it will be essential to create a culture where services are given back to the people and delivered with the attitude that the ‘ customer is sovereign ’ . |
| 4 | Mrs Leinen fears if they are flown back to the United States she 'll lose custody forever . |
| 5 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 6 | That there 's more to Normski than his manic public persona is obvious here , with the music playing , and the beaming photos of himself and Janet Street-Porter that are propped up through the house . |
| 7 | Toilet seats are propped up against the wall , in the unlikely event that someone might want to buy them in a country where hygiene is pathological . |
| 8 | In the UK anyway , the published products of historical scholarship , monographs and articles in learned journals , are still the principal criteria upon which promotion and professional recognition are meted out within the humanities . |
| 9 | So all the excavations are filled in for the sake of tidiness , and all the bolt-holes and entrance holes are filled in to help assess what 's been left . |
| 10 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 11 | When it is grabbed , its elongated , sharp-pointed ribs are pressed out through the sides of its body and into the lining of the mouth of the hapless hunter . |
| 12 | How detritus and fish excreta are broken down in the filter |
| 13 | Bikini bottoms look more like high-waisted hot pants , while swimsuits are squared off across the thighs or skirted . |
| 14 | Most of your belongings are stacked up in the hall and the bedroom . |
| 15 | The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals . |
| 16 | It is in the interview that many of these aspects of the post are checked on with the candidate . |
| 17 | The disputes procedure , that has been in place for some time , and enables us to resolve disputes locally , if they can not be resolved locally , then they are referred up through the management systems . |
| 18 | Subjects that they care about are fended off by the pupils with the familiar complaints that they are ‘ boring ’ or ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 19 | Volcanic bombs are just lumps of solid ( or sometimes plastic ) lava which are lobbed out of the vent , fall back to earth with a wallop , and that 's all . |
| 20 | Then , suddenly , the arms are dropped down to the sides of the body again . |
| 21 | Sir Geoffrey is also required to examine the basis on which share deals which are carried on outside the Exchange can be handled by the new clearing house . |
| 22 | And all of these functions are carried on by the ego . |
| 23 | Further , some at least of the influential individuals in a community may operate outside the field of industrial relations : drawing on the work of Blauner ( 1960 ) , Bulmer suggests that the strong occupational communities characteristic of mining settlements occur because the social relations forged in the workplace are carried over into the arenas of non-work activity , creating overlapping primary group affiliations in which |
| 24 | These materials are highly complicated and important fluids which play a great part in the direction of the ways in which our bodies and minds function ; they are known as hormones , and are carried around in the bloodstream exercising effect on each other and on a variety of bodily processes . |
| 25 | Tests are carried out at the United States Department of Energy 's site in Nevada under the terms of the 1958 agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States . |
| 26 | Research projects on many topics are carried out at the CTVM , overseas , and elsewhere in the Edinburgh area and students and staff present their work at weekly seminars . |
| 27 | The following steps are carried out at the planning stage : |
| 28 | These chapters record how the instructions given in chapters 25–31 are carried out to the letter . |
| 29 | Psychologists theorizing about animal Umwelten need to ask what such inferences might be , what is the perceptual evidence in which the animal 's concepts are anchored , and what are the motor activities which test for them or which are carried out on the basis of conditional tests defined in terms of them . |
| 30 | Using a word processor , all corrections are carried out on the screen before a document is printed . |